Anschluss vs Liaison - What's the difference?
anschluss | liaison |
(historical) Political annexation, specifically that of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938.
* 1941 , (W Somerset Maugham), Up at the Villa , Vintage 2004, page 44:
*:‘Some of us students protested against the Anschluss .’
* 2001 , (Clive James), Even As We Speak :
Communication between two parties or groups.
Co-operation, working together.
A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
A tryst, romantic meeting.
(figuratively) An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
(linguistics) The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il ".
As nouns the difference between anschluss and liaison
is that anschluss is political annexation, specifically that of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938 while liaison is communication between two parties or groups.As a verb liaison is
to liaise.anschluss
English
(wikipedia Anschluss)Noun
(-)- Anton Kuh was one of the Viennese coffee-house wits whose mastery of the brief critical essay reached its apotheosis in the last nervous years before the Anschluss .